In other frameworks, pagination can be very painful. Laravel’s paginator is integrated with the query builder and Eloquent ORM and provides convenient, easy-to-use pagination of database results out of the box. The HTML generated by the paginator is compatible with the Bootstrap CSS framework.
Basic Usage
Paginating Query Builder Results
There are several ways to paginate items. The simplest is by using the paginate method on the query builder or an Eloquent query. The paginate method automatically takes care of setting the proper limit and offset based on the current page being viewed by the user. By default, the current page is detected by the value of the page query string argument on the HTTP request. Of course, this value is automatically detected by Laravel, and is also automatically inserted into links generated by the paginator.
In this example, the only argument passed to the paginate method is the number of items you would like displayed “per page”. In this case, let’s specify that we would like to display 15 items per page:
amespace App\Http\Controllers; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB; use App\Http\Controllers\Controller; class UserController extends Controller { /** * Show all of the users for the application. * * @return Response */ public function index() { $users = DB::table('users')->paginate(15); return view('user.index', ['users' => $users]); } }
“Simple Pagination”
If you only need to display simple “Next” and “Previous” links in your pagination view, you may use the simplePaginate method to perform a more efficient query. This is very useful for large datasets when you do not need to display a link for each page number when rendering your view:
$users = DB::table(‘users’)->simplePaginate(15);
Paginating Eloquent Results
You may also paginate Eloquent queries. In this example, we will paginate the User model with 15 items per page. As you can see, the syntax is nearly identical to paginating query builder results:
$users = App\User::paginate(15);
Sometimes you may wish to create a pagination instance manually, passing it an array of items. You may do so by creating either an Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator or Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator instance, depending on your needs.
The Paginator class does not need to know the total number of items in the result set; however, because of this, the class does not have methods for retrieving the index of the last page. The LengthAwarePaginator accepts almost the same arguments as the Paginator; however, it does require a count of the total number of items in the result set.
In other words, the Paginator corresponds to the simplePaginate method on the query builder and Eloquent, while the LengthAwarePaginator corresponds to the paginate method.
When calling the paginate method, you will receive an instance of Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator. When calling the simplePaginate method, you will receive an instance of Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator. These objects provide several methods that describe the result set. In addition to these helpers methods, the paginator instances are iterators and may be looped as an array. So, once you have retrieved the results, you may display the results and render the page links using Blade:
<div class="container"> @foreach ($users as $user) {{ $user->name }} @endforeach </div> {{ $users->links() }} Route::get('users', function () { $users = App\User::paginate(15); $users->withPath('custom/url'); // }); { "total": 50, "per_page": 15, "current_page": 1, "last_page": 4, "first_page_url": "http://laravel.app?page=1", "last_page_url": "http://laravel.app?page=4", "next_page_url": "http://laravel.app?page=2", "prev_page_url": null, "path": "http://laravel.app", "from": 1, "to": 15, "data":[ { // Result Object }, { // Result Object } ] }
$results->count()
$results->currentPage()
$results->firstItem()
$results->hasMorePages()
$results->lastItem()
$results->lastPage() (Not available when using simplePaginate)
$results->nextPageUrl()
$results->onFirstPage()
$results->perPage()
$results->previousPageUrl()
$results->total() (Not available when using simplePaginate)
$results->url($page)